Eskimo Official: Lift `Ice Curtain`

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev have been urged to lift the ``ice curtain`` that divides Eskimos in Siberia and Alaska from each other.

A letter sent to the two world leaders by the leader of an organization of Inuits, or Eskimos, in Alaska, Greenland and Canada says the cold war between the two powers has caused ``the separation of our brothers and sisters in Siberia from the rest of the Inuit world.``

Hans-Pavia Rosing, a Greenlander who is president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, wrote, ``For years we have been trying to establish contacts across the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia, but so far without any success. The `ice curtain` has been impossible to penetrate so far.``

He appealed to Reagan and Gorbachev to ``consider uniting the separated Inuit families of the Bering Strait region and make it possible for our relatives to take part in the cultural exchanges`` of the conference.

``Please end the cold war for the sake of the world`s 100,000 Inuit whom I represent as well as for the rest of mankind,`` Rosing said.